A viral video shows multiple police officers in Washington, D.C., brutally tackling a Black man and pepper-spraying him after he was seen recording them patrolling the streets of the city.

The video was initially posted on Instagram just days before President Donald Trump ordered a federal operation in the nation’s capital to reduce violent crime.

The roughly one-minute clip shows a man walking behind officers on a sidewalk and recording them, when one cop suddenly whips around and pepper-sprays him in his eyes.

The man turns away, but several officers pursue him and tackle him to the ground. Another cop is seen respraying him with more mace even after an onlooker repeatedly yells, “Don’t spray him!”

Multiple cops were filmed wrestling the man to the ground. At one point, five officers

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